17 August 2025
The sermon says that while Vancouver is beautiful, many people still feel its deeper problems of loneliness, confusion, and lack of identity. Drawing from Psalm 122, it presents God’s answer as his vision of a renewed city marked by peace, belonging, and wholeness. That vision is not mainly about earthly power, but about God gathering people into his presence through the local church, where they learn to love him and their neighbors together.
It highlights four gifts of God’s city: togetherness, true worship, justice, and security. The preacher acknowledges the real pain caused by church failure, yet urges people not to give up on the church, because Jesus remains faithful and is healing and reforming his people. The sermon ends by calling believers to seek the good of their city not only through service and generosity, but especially through prayer, trusting that God is building a better future and inviting his people to join him in it.
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